Subject: Zero byte "pinercXXXXXX" files?

From: [email-masked] (Andrew A. Kincaid)
Date: 3 Jan 1997 19:01:39 GMT

Does anyone know why Pine 3.95 (in Unix) would create these "pinerc021178"
files out in user's home directories?  -- Oh, and they are 0 bytes big.

Does anyone know what these are, and how to stop them from being created?

Thanks,
Andrew Kincaid
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:33:55 -0800

> Does anyone know what these are, and how to stop them from being created?

These are created when Pine makes an unsuccessful attempt to re-write
the .pinerc file.  Pine is able to create a temp file, but then cannot
write to it.  This is typically caused by a disk full or over-quota
condition... 

--DLM

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Miles)
Date: 6 Jan 1997 17:10:22 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,

>Does anyone know what these are, and how to stop them from being created?

The only time I've seen such a file created was when the disk filled up
today, and the file size was 8192 bytes.  The contents looked like pine
was creating a new version of .pinerc using a temporary file name.

Therefore, if you stop the disk from filling up, you'll probably stop
pine from leaving these files behind when it exits, although it may still
create them and immediately rename them to .pinerc.